A nonprofit is asking the Treasury Department to sanction seven Chinese companies after its reporting revealed their alleged ties to forced labor in China’s seafood industry (see 2310100030). The Outlaw Ocean Project, a Washington-based investigative journalism non-profit, said it submitted a petition to Treasury calling for human rights sanctions under the Global Magnitsky Act against the seven companies and their affiliates, who are “complicit in serious human rights abuses” against Xinjiang workers.
The U.N. Security Council last week amended several existing sanctions entries that were designated for their links to terrorism or North Korea. The changes revise identifying information for five people and two entities designated under the ISIL (Da’esh) and al-Qaida Sanctions List and two entities with ties to North Korea’s nuclear and missile programs.